Forge can't be used to melt metals.

[Krski 36]

(I am coming from TDKminecraft's latest video "Making a ingot EP5")The forge can't be used to melt metal into ingots for some strange reason , idk if this is intended but it felt rather strange that you can not melt metals in a higher temperature of the forge but you can in a normal fire.

[Sebster 8]

You have to use a bloomery to smelt ore. A forge can then be used to work the metal into ingots and then tools.

[politehnik 9]

But you can smelt ore in campfire. Sounds strange to me.

[Ditto8353 202]

But you can smelt ore in campfire. Sounds strange to me.

Unbeknownst to Skyrim and World of Warcraft, a forge is not a device for melting metals, it is more accurately described as a workbench.

And yes, ore really can be crudely melted into metals with a campfire.

[Waveshaper 33]

No no no - you must look closer on the realism...

You definitely can smelt SOME ores in open fireplaces if their melting point is low enough.

But a FORGE isn't made for melting ores, it's for bringing metals to a temperature that you can hammering it out.

Okay - it would be more realistic if you were able to also smelt the ores with low melting point in a forge - it would also be possible in real - but put this feature in for only 3 sorts of ores?

[politehnik 9]

If I can reach melting point of some ore in forge, why can't I smelt it? It's realistic in some case, but definitely not believable. And it's not believable for me, that I can't put a piece of ore into forge.

[Waveshaper 33]

If I can reach melting point of some ore in forge, why can't I smelt it? It's realistic in some case, but definitely not believable. And it's not believable for me, that I can't put a piece of ore into forge.

An open fire reaches it hottest spot directly above the flame you can see. To smelt some ore you can place you mold directly over the flame, but the ore in it and wait till it is molten.

A forge is ventilated from the side or the bottom - so, when you but the ingot in the forge filled with coal, it reach a constant temperature you want and what is exactly the temperature you need for bringing your metal into the right temperature. If you would try smelting the same way you did over the flame, you probably never reach enough heat for smelting.

Is that more believable for you? If not, you must excuse - this is as much detailed as I can do it in this language.

[politehnik 9]

PS after 7 seconds of searching I found this: http://terrafirmacra...h__1#entry15063

PPS I still think that it's not believable that I can't PUT ores in forge, but it's only my opinion, so nvm

[EstebanLB 183]

It's about gameplay balance, not realism

[pwajnkaim 15]

I heard that a forge is too impure to smelt ores and would simply corrupt them and produce very low quality metal.

[Waveshaper 33]

I heard that a forge is too impure to smelt ores and would simply corrupt them and produce very low quality metal.

Of course it is - you would have to cover your ore with the coals in the forge - and unfortunately that's not the way you get your carbon into this iron ore for making it steel...

[ShawnB 8]

Forges can't handle the volume that is required to smelt ores, their purpose is to reheat metals to working. That's why the bloomery has to be constructed with a massive chimney.

[ruhl4 24]

I once heard that melting ore in forges was planned but not a high priority.